My most essential piece of software as a photographer is Adobe Lightroom. It’s one of those things you salivate for when you hear an update is coming. Such an update is upon us with Lightroom CC, but the new features still leave me thirsty.

Images of long sandy beaches, breathtaking mountains, and even bustling cities come to mind when you think about an extra wide panoramic photo—not the inside of somebody's bladder. But new software promises to give doctors a better view inside a patient's plumbing by stitching countless images from an endoscope…

At first glance, the bublcam looks kind of like a Poké Ball, but it's actually an impressive HD camera capable of taking completely 360-degree panoramas, live. The spherical little wonder isn't just a fantasy; it works pretty damn well.

Over the past four years the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was busy collecting photographs… 10,581 to be exact. And it was all for you! So you could explore the moon at a dazzling resolution of six feet per pixel—your tax dollars at work

How do you go about creating an iconic and awe-inspiring photograph from the tallest building in America? If you'reTIME, you climb right to the top and set up a 360-degree interactive panorama using not one but 567 images of NYC in all its glory.

Humans can see an impressive 120-degree arc, but we're not capable of focusing on all of that vision at once. Panoramic photographs stretch that sight to 180 or 360 degrees, and even better, 100% of that image is in attention-grabbing focus. Here are the 29 panoramas from this week's Shooting Challenge.

It's hard to take an enchanting photo. But it's even harder to take an enchanting photo that's 3x or more the normal length. So for this week's Shooting Challenge, we're going wide. We're going panoramic.

Almost every camera and cameraphone has the option of taking extra-wide panoramic photos by stitching multiple shots together. But for decent results you either need a sniper's skills, or something like this simple rotating Camalapse mount to precisely move the camera for you.

Ever fancied taking a jaunt around the Antartic but weren't too keen on the idea of dealing with the frostbite, potential for death under every step, and the bitterly cold temperatures? Not to worry: Google's got you covered with some seriously stunning 360-degree panoramas, and Street View of historic places like …

When 360 Panorama hit the iPhone last year, we liked being able to spin in a circle and have the phone create a panorama in real-time. Now Android users can do the same, thanks to some impressive trickery.

It's been 66 long years since the US leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs. The bombs, which killed over 200,000 people, left both cities in ruins. This is what the aftermath looked like in 360 degrees.

Who wants to actually travel to the Vatican to see Michelangelo's masterpiece? And physically crane their neck to look at its spectacular ceiling? The Church's official website has an excellent, high-res panorama that lets you explore the Sistine Chapel, one of the world's finest works of art, without ever changing…

360 Panorama's a nifty app for shooting 360-degree images with your iPhone wherever you happen to be. It just got better with an update that lets friends view those panoramas by spinning their own gyroscopically-capable iPhones around wherever they are.

If you thought that 45 gigapixel panorama of Dubai was something, you ain't seen nothing yet. This 70 gigapixel shot of Budapest is so massive, you can zoom right into the windows of those apartments on the horizon.

For those who can't be bothered with a DIY kitchen timer tripod (and I'm one of you), now you can just go ahead and buy one: the Camalapse, from Camarush, does the trick with an adorable egg timer. Updated with video!

Pull the trigger-cord, and away the panoramic photos snap, with the camera spinning on its axis. It's one of the coolest (and cheapest) ways to shoot 360-degree photos, and as it's from Lomography the saturated colors and effects are guaranteed.